What human and physical effects can earthquakes have?

 Children recapped the vocabulary focus and epi-centre as well as seismic waves. Then, they looked at a seismograph and how this works as well as the Richter Scale and the different magnitudes and their impact. As a group the children then came up with ideas about how an earthquake could affect the land and the long term effects on people’s lives. 

Furthermore, the children watched the live web cam of earthquakes that day and one happened in North America as we were watching it. 

Finally they watched a clip from an earthquake in Kathmandu in 2015. Using a photo they highlighted the impacts they could see in the pictures.  They were then introduced to Shelterbox who are a charity that helps earthquake victims.

The children really were engaged and were asking really good questions to deepen their knowledge.





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